Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Financial Statement of the surplus of the Hygiene Department quite startled me and other recent alumni of Stillman Infirmary. In general the treatment and care we received in our Mt. Auburn St. exile was very good-the nurses were plentiful and usually friendly and helpful. The ward was clean and the medical attention apparently competent. And so we naturally attributed the condition of the food, so out of step with the rest of the infirmary, to a lack of funds. But now that a surplus of $30,000 has been revealed, it is time that the food situation at Stillman...
...Lusty Child. There were early flops, but the flops were soon outnumbered by notable successes. Trim, clean-lined stoves, oil heaters, refrigerators and washing machines outsold their ugly predecessors and those of competitors. Streamlining, which had the laudable purpose of cutting down wind resistance in trains, cars, etc., became such a craze that it was even inflicted on such static objects as desk sets. Little by little the hardy, struggling band proved that their artistry could draw that prettiest curve of all to businessmen−an upward-sweeping sales curve...
Even in the years after the Civil War, she continues, "the South's conscience hurt; always there were doubts and scruples." Had the South been able to make a clean break with its past, the evil might have been exorcised. But gnawed by memories of its defeat and provoked by harsh meddlers from the North, the South gradually transformed "the Negro question" into a fanatical folk bias, coloring its segregated religion, its sex attitudes, its every moment in life...
...hard clean game all the way," said Lamar, "it was a question of which team broke; we didn...
...November 8, Cambridge voters will have a chance to continue a record of clean civic administration begun in 1940, when they changed to a Plan E form of government. Ten years ago they substituted a city manager for the mayor, and election by proportional representation for the then corrupt ward system. That change, combined with the election of honest officials, has provided Cambridge with one of the best administrations in this state...